Julia Nova was born in Moscow. At age 18, Julia was in law school and entered a beauty contest which she won. The contest was sponsored by photographer Satoshi Kizu and he shot her first movie in 2000. Julia's work has remained mostly in Japan where she was featured in Bachelor magazine a few times.

The pics floating around of her are mainly softcore but her films do go hardcore but pixelated because of Japan's more strict porn laws. Julia's photographer got Google to block sites using her pictures illegally in 2003 making pictures of this Russian beauty even harder to find. She also has an official site here